Market Name Contact Name Phone or email
Adams County Cynthia Brown 937-587-2602
Alliance Farmers’ Market Ginny Daniel 330-821-7712
Baltimore Farmers Market 740-862-6741
Columbus Commons Market Adam Schroeder 614-645-5061
Cortland Farmers Market Trish Rooney 330-259-7472
Downtown Greenville Farmers’ Market 937-548-4998
Downtown Troy Farmers Market Becky Daffner 937-238-5641
Fayette County Farmers’ Market David Persinger 740-948-2231
FBC Farmers’ Market in Shaker Square Stephanie Allen
Great Sidney Farmers Market Cindy Stangel 937-492-9122
Johnstown Farmers’ Market Susan Cromwell 740.817.1378
Montgomery Farmers’ Market Val Taylor valerietaylor@cinci.rr.com
Morgan County Farmers’ Market Amy Grove 740-962-4854
Ohio Rest Area Farmers’ Markets Sandy Kuhn 614-246-8249
Ohio Valley Farmers Market Susan West 740-676-8187
Pearl Market Adam Schroeder 614-645-5061
Pickaway Farmers Market Sue Bialy 740.477.2032
Prairie Farmers’ Market Harley Yerkes (614) 853-0278
Steubenville’s Farmer’s Market Beth Wood 800-510-4442
The Hocking Hills Farmers Market Betty Shaw 740-385-5306
Wade Oval Farmers’ Market Jessica Trnkus 216.707.5007 x 207
The Farmers’ Market Management Network wants to tell the story of successful markets . FMMN will take nominations to shine a spotlight on the markets who are achieving their missions particularly well, even in smaller communities. To celebrate National Farmers Market Week, August 7-13 we will be selecting six (6) markets around Ohio to feature.
Does your market excel at one or more of the following?:
- Number of farmers or acreage of farmland in production for the market
- Innovative community partnership (eg with local nonprofit, hospital,school, etc.)
- Strong integrity around concept of locally grown/enforcement ofproducer-only rules
- Measurable economic impact (to rural producers and/or to region at large,with SEED or other economic analysis)
- Engagement opportunities for children
- A role as a small business incubator (eg part time farmers becoming full time)
- SNAP/EBT redemption growth
- At least eight months into a successful FMPP grant
- Wide product diversity/preservation of heirloom varieties
- Instances of civic engagement and volunteerism
Nominate an exceptional market by July 15, 2011. Tell us in an e-mail.
Posted on behalf of Prairie Farmers Market. Contact Harley Yerkes for details: 614.853.0278
The Prairie Farmers Market has been expanded, and is offering FREE FARM AND PRODUCT PROMOTION space for specialty crop growers, producers of organic red meat, poultry meat and eggs, and other farm products. The offer is being offered exclusively to OEFFA members.
The promotional event will take place Saturday July 2, and Saturday July 9 between 8 AM and 12 PM. Growers are encouraged to come out and advertise your farm and farm products! The Farmers Market will provide a single 20′x 22′ parking lot space where vendors are permitted to park, set up tail-gate or table top display, and advertise their product.
Please note: no items requiring refrigeration may be sold, unless previous arrangements with Harley have been made. This event is intended to provide a free promotional venue for OEFFA members.
Actual sales of meat, eggs and poultry are not permitted, but advertising and provision of directions to your farm are encouraged.
If you are a producer or know producers who are still looking for markets in which to participate, here is another opportunity. Adams County is exploring starting a farmers’ market. If you are interested in participating, please contact Cynthia Brown at info@hopespringsinstitute.org or via telephone 937-587-2602. Please include your name, contact information (phone and/or e-mail) and what you produce. Cynthia will contact you to discuss the market.
Ohio Valley Farmers Market (Belmont County) is looking for additional produce vendors. The market is held in Bellaire Saturdays 9-noon and in St. Clairsville Tuesdays 3-6pm. If you are interested, please contact Susan West.
Contact: Susan West
ovfarmersmarket@gmail.com
740-676-8187
Growers wanted for a new farmers market on the west side of Columbus. West side residents, plan to shop this new market July 2-September 17.
This market is unique in that it welcomes organic (non-certified) gardeners, who produce smaller quantities of product.
Full press release with details attached.
Full press release with details attached.
A shameless marketing promotion by Small Farm Central, but nonetheless good free stuff. You get a 50 page booklet to help you gather name and email addresses of your visitors at your farmers’ market booth.
Mailing List Booklets for Your Farmers Markets | Small Farm Central.
A few short weeks ago, the Farmers Market Coalition became aware of a new Final Rule related to IRS reporting requirements for electronic transactions. This regulation, ‘Information Reporting for Payments Made in Settlement of Payment Card and Third Party Network Transactions,’ (6050W, for short) requires that all payments, including EBT, debit, and credit sales, be reported to the IRS (via 1099K, a form they are currently creating) by the merchant processing companies facilitating these transactions (such as J.P. Morgan, ACS, or Fidelity). Essentially, this is to ensure that the IRS receives an annual record of all the incoming electronic transactions conducted by merchants, whether they’re hardware stores, cafés, farmers markets, or farmers themselves. Nonprofits are not exempt from reporting requirements, according to the IRS.
Read the full story for a detailed analysis of how this will be affecting markets and vendors.
The National Farmers Market Health Insurance Survey! You can start taking the survey right now by clicking on this link.
The Farmers Market Coalition is partnering with the USDA Risk Management Agency, with pro bono assistance from the San Francisco Insurance Center, on this 10-15 minute survey about health care coverage for people who work in the farmers market sector.
Why is this important? Last spring, we conducted a small preliminary survey on insurance and found that, out of 279 respondents, nearly 20% did not possess any kind of health insurance coverage. Thirty two percent of market managers responding said that they purchase policies on their own. This was only a small glimpse into the issue, but convinced us that we should learn more, and send a revised survey to a wider audience.
Please, take this survey now, regardless of how happy you might be with your existing health coverage! Please be assured that your anonymity will be preserved and responses will be kept entirely confidential.
The deadline to respond is April 15, a date we’re borrowing with absolutely no permission from the IRS since they moved their tax filing deadline back a few days this year.
Specifically, this survey is targeting producers/farm employees who sell at farmers markets, farmers market staff/volunteers, and staff/volunteers in regional or statewide farmers market organizations. Please understand that this is only designed as an analysis of the current situation, and there is no guarantee that FMC or any other farmers market organization ultimately can or will make available any kind of health benefits program. But your participation in this survey is one important step in that direction.
FMC’s ability to be your voice at the national level is dependent on your support and active participation, so we ask that you forward the survey to your producers, fellow market managers, and other farmers market staff in order to get as large a response as possible.
Ohio Action Alert
Two weeks ago, the House passed its spending bill (“continuing resolution”) for Fiscal Year 11 – the year we’re in right now. Their bill would cut over $5.2 BILLION from agriculture – a disproportionate share of the budget! (a 22% cut, compared with 6% from other sectors.)
While the bill does not cut the Farmers Market Promotion Program, the House does cut severely into many programs that underpin the profitability of farmers who sell at our farmers markets and the communities that our markets serve. For example, farm credit (especially for beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers) is severely cut, as are conservation programs (over $500 million cut out of just four conservation programs!) and many research and outreach programs. The bill completely eliminates key programs like ATTRA (the National Sustainable Information Service), the Organic Transitions Research program, and many others.
The Senate is our only hope for pushing back, and we urgently must push our Senators to do so. Please call both our senators and ask them to oppose unjust spending cuts affecting small farms and sustainable and organic farmers.
Sherrod Brown
http://brown.senate.gov/
p (202) 224-2315
f (202) 228-6321
Web Form: http://brown.senate.gov/contact/
Rob Portman (R – OH)
p (202) 224-3353
Web Form: http://portman.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm
The bill (H.R. 1) unfairly targets programs that serve sustainable and organic farmers. It makes deep cuts in farm credit, agricultural research, and extension. It slashes funding provided in the 2008 Farm Bill for conservation and would terminate programs that serve beginning and minority farmers without making any cuts to commodity or crop insurance funding. The cuts are reckless and unjust, threatening economic recovery in rural communities struggling to create jobs, find new markets, and renew economic life.
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